Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2016

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, leaders must stay motivated. Motivated leaders consistently seek out new ideas to improve the business and are very aware of what the competition is doing. When you have motivated executives, you have motivated employees. They set the example for others.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 28, 2016

At one recent convention, I had the opportunity to listen to incredibly smart, prepared HR professionals who had done their homework about the topic of engagement and important related factors like: quality of leadership, fair compensation, recognition programs, needed training, and effectively communicated corporate values.

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Jason Womack

OCTOBER 5, 2014

I can work on an American Airlines flight over the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, set up a “temporary office” at a Starwood hotel, or review client notes at a locally-owned, community-focused coffee shop. Over the next 5 days, position yourself where and when you can get the right things done. Where Do You Do What You Do? MacBook Pro.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 19, 2016

As his first official act at Ford, Alan brought his leadership team together and asked them to share their top five priorities for their companies, and assess the progress of each priority using a green-yellow-red scoring system for good-concerned-poor. On American Airlines alone, I have over 11 million frequent flyer miles.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

A business that invests in empathy devotes itself to understanding the emotional needs and motivations of its customers, and aligns itself to meet them. We know human motivation is extremely complex – typically people don’t say what they think, or even think what they report. All airlines are the same, except for their people.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Cooper and Aymen Sawaf, Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations. “Celebration is given high priority in both organizations (Wal-Mart and Southwest Airlines). In fact, when recognition is specific and deliberately delivered, it is even more motivating than money.” ” - Robert K.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Many organizations aren’t in a position to retain their people, let alone stimulate feelings of financial security and solidarity with bonuses and rewards. The move is aimed at leading by example, motivating employees and ensuring business viability in the short-term. While organizations that face a survival threat (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Southwest Airlines receives a job application every two seconds. We also conduct what we call a career motivation interview to determine if the candidate really understands the job he or she is applying for and if it is aligned with his or her career goals. Obviously, certain positions require specific skillsets.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Many organizations aren’t in a position to retain their people, let alone stimulate feelings of financial security and solidarity with bonuses and rewards. The move is aimed at leading by example, motivating employees and ensuring business viability in the short-term. While organizations that face a survival threat (e.g.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This idea is supported by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter, authority on leadership and change, who finds that in order to succeed, 75% of the company’s management, needs to ‘buy into’ the change. The benefits to look for in this particular activity are: Remember that motivation begins with you.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. This being the case, followership should be viewed as a role, not a position.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 18, 2011

Allow me to posit that fun is the by-product of a number of other correct factors all being in place at the same time. Other leaders have established fun as a pervasive element in their very corporate culture (Southwest Airlines and Zappos come to mind). To illustrate this idea, let's consider the negative. We will have fun.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

The assumption that people are motivated differently around the world — especially in Asia — and that leaders must adapt their behavior accordingly is wrong. Thus, great leadership looks the same wherever you are. No matter where I am, my leadership style never changes. Europe and Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

An airline industry executive has been promoted regularly for more than two decades because he’s good in a crisis. And the board is asking for something different from him: he needs to motivate people. And the board is asking for something different from him: he needs to motivate people. Where to start?

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 16, 2011

I’m sitting in an airline lounge at LAX, and I’m reflecting a bit on my week as I wait to board a red-eye flight back to Indianapolis. On the guitar, I now know how to make my left hand do the finger positions to do a number of chords, and I can play them acceptably. Employee Motivation Tips: The Why Matters.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

you put yourself in the right position), you are ready. When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket.

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Written by Ellen Cooperperson, Best-Selling Author, CEO, Leadership Coach, and creator of Connect U. “I My case led to changing, among other things, job titles, like draftsman to graphic artist, airline stewardess to flight attendant, and manpower to human resources. American schools do “teach less and indoctrinate more”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The story is understood and cared about by senior leadership outside of marketing. Customers and partners are motivated to engage with the story and are actively using it to advance their own stories. The story is about a larger ambition to make the world or people''s lives better. These actions add back up to a cohesive whole.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

And our research shows that it can be powerful, motivating, and even addictive to become known by others as the person you are when you are at your authentic best. buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer). Entering an organization offers people a rare chance to make a fresh start in a new social setting.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We worked with philosophers at The School of Life to develop a set of questions capable of helping people to uncover deeper truths about their organizations, their brands and their own professional motivations: questions like, “Which of your brand’s flaws have you learned to ignore?” The element of surprise can make your brand extraordinary.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The leadership of the change effort can’t end with the top team, the top 100 managers, or the top 1,000 managers. Change leaders must go beyond storytelling, motivation, and mobilization efforts―they need to provide resources so that the organization has what it needs to win in the new environment.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

The key is identifying your best employees – your A Players – and spread their values by hiring people who share those values and motivate all employees to live those values every day. A culture is the culmination of the leadership, values, language, people processes, rules, and other conditions, good or bad, present within the organization.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Airlines say that delays caused by air traffic controllers cost them a combined $4 billion per year. Financial Position. Cargo theft costs the U.S.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’ll know as you read this interview – the wealth of leadership wisdom, strategic foresight, and transformative insights shared by Norm Smallwood—a luminary shaping tomorrow’s leadership landscape–will completely reframe how you look at the modern workplace! We labeled these foundational competencies the “leadership code”.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share …. Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

In addition to hospitals, an integrated systemic response will call on community health organizations, airlines and other public transportation companies, the TSA, and providers of other services patronized by those potentially infected. Crisis management Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

As Peter Drucker put it, “culture eats strategy over breakfast” Just take a look at Southwest Airlines, the company which saw the greatest value expansion in the S&P 500 between 1971 and 2001. Coaching Hiring Leadership Managing people Organizational culture' But you can’t make the mistake of ignoring culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Consider Delta Airlines. It released a statement explaining that the decision “reflects the airline’s neutral status in the current national debate over gun control.” Rent-seeking is not only tolerated, but admired, so long as a company is transparent, consistent, and shows leadership in its industry.

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